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george h. w. bush took the stage himself with guitar in hand at one of his inaugural balls. ♪ and bill clinton duetted with sex phonist clarence clemons in 1993, but what americans remember most was the performance clinton's campaign theme song. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow ♪ ♪ don't stop >> reporter: all five members of fleetwood mac reunited just to play in front of the clintons as lindsay buckingham recalls. >> what bill and hillary both had to offer is people and what they were espousing was exciting to a lot of us. and so we were quite pleased, as we were going out with the tag, you know, don't you look back, don't you look back, bill comes up and hillary comes up and shakes our hands and it was just one of those experiences you will never forget. ♪ only in america >> reporter: country music was front and center at the inaugural fest foifrts texan george w. bush. >> bush loved to portray himself as a texas rancher. what is a texas rancher listen to? country. >> reporter: pre
george h. w. bush took the stage himself with guitar in hand at one of his inaugural balls. ♪ and bill clinton duetted with sex phonist clarence clemons in 1993, but what americans remember most was the performance clinton's campaign theme song. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow ♪ ♪ don't stop >> reporter: all five members of fleetwood mac reunited just to play in front of the clintons as lindsay buckingham recalls. >> what bill and hillary both had to offer is people and...
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. >> president george w. bush and first lady laura bush. >> reporter: sounds to me like you wouldn't trade this for the world, this experience you've had. >> if i had to, i would pay them to let me do it. i love it. >> reporter: charlie blrotman gt his start as the announcer for harry truman in 1949. he was a student at a broadcasting school when the call came in. by 1957 he had the job from then on. charl kri brotman truly knows these parades better than the presidents themselves. jim acosta, cnn, washington. >>> good morning, good afternoon, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. welcome to our special coverage of the presidential inauguration weekend. >> i'm john berman. great to see you. you are looking at live pictures now of the first family marking today's national day of service. people all over the country are doing the same thing the obamas are doing right now, volunteering in their community on this martin luther king holiday weekend. this national day of service going on here on the national mall where the p
. >> president george w. bush and first lady laura bush. >> reporter: sounds to me like you wouldn't trade this for the world, this experience you've had. >> if i had to, i would pay them to let me do it. i love it. >> reporter: charlie blrotman gt his start as the announcer for harry truman in 1949. he was a student at a broadcasting school when the call came in. by 1957 he had the job from then on. charl kri brotman truly knows these parades better than the presidents...
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. >> according to "usa today" polls he is at 55%, which is five points ahead of where george w. bush was in 2005 but seven points behind bill clinton. >> ronald reagan had the same rating as bill clinton at 62% and richard nixon was down to 51% in 1973. both lyndon johnson and dwight eisenhower topped everyone here, they reached the low 70s. they were at 71% and 73% respentively. >> that's pretty impressive. >> those numbers would never exit tod exist today. >>> thousands of people are starting to descend this morning. >> never too early to get ready. this morning, though, we'll look past the oath of office to the next four years. the issues, the plans, the prospects. as joe johns reports, some of the most notorious scandals also happened in the second term. >> reporter: president obama has high hopes for the next four years. >> i intend to carry out the agenda that i campaigned on. >> reporter: if he wants to reach that goal, history says a second-term president has got to move fast. >> power does seep away from the presidency very quickly in the second term. >> second term pre
. >> according to "usa today" polls he is at 55%, which is five points ahead of where george w. bush was in 2005 but seven points behind bill clinton. >> ronald reagan had the same rating as bill clinton at 62% and richard nixon was down to 51% in 1973. both lyndon johnson and dwight eisenhower topped everyone here, they reached the low 70s. they were at 71% and 73% respentively. >> that's pretty impressive. >> those numbers would never exit tod exist today....
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remember george w. bush? >> yeah. >> in 2005, the first issue he picked, social security privatization. >> yeah. >> he didn't really campaign on it in 2004. and it was defeated almost immediately in 2005 and his second term went down hill after that. so picking your agenda carefully is the key for a second term and a risk for obama to pick something as controversial as this. >> guns? i mean, that's a risky, risky move. >> i think there are two things behind it. one, i think the president genuinely had a conversion on the issue after newtown. he's talked about it. and two, the public, if you just -- not to be crude about it, but if you look at the polling, it does seem we are at an inflexion point on this issue where democrats who have been scared of the issue for years aren't so much anymore. >> what about the news that house republicans plan to vote next week on a three-month extension to the debt limit? what's the political strategy behind that? >> it's pretty big news. this is what obama asked them to do.
remember george w. bush? >> yeah. >> in 2005, the first issue he picked, social security privatization. >> yeah. >> he didn't really campaign on it in 2004. and it was defeated almost immediately in 2005 and his second term went down hill after that. so picking your agenda carefully is the key for a second term and a risk for obama to pick something as controversial as this. >> guns? i mean, that's a risky, risky move. >> i think there are two things behind...
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january 2001 when george w. bush's swearing in. he was in a motorcade moving towards the white house. >> turned down pennsylvania avenue and the military aide in the right front seat of the car turned around and said there is a gas mask under your seat. get ready to put it on. that's a little startling. >> that was to prevent the possible tear gassing of protesters. >> the deputy chief of staff under president bush coordinated big event like summits and trips to war zones and inaugurations. as we look, the secret service, the lead security service for the inauguration make sure the buildings are clear of potential snipers. manhole covers will be welded shut and s.w.a.t. teams will be all over the city. plain clothes officers in the crowds. bomb-sniffing dogs and teams trained on weapon was mass destruction. >> our dive team and intelligence analysts will be working around the clock and hostage negotiators. >> the fbi official spoke to us where security teams will do realtime monitoring of cameras posted on buildings and roads. they
january 2001 when george w. bush's swearing in. he was in a motorcade moving towards the white house. >> turned down pennsylvania avenue and the military aide in the right front seat of the car turned around and said there is a gas mask under your seat. get ready to put it on. that's a little startling. >> that was to prevent the possible tear gassing of protesters. >> the deputy chief of staff under president bush coordinated big event like summits and trips to war zones and...
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. >> cnn national security contributor and former homeland security adviser to president george w. bush fran townsend joins us now. welcome, fran. >> hi. >> we understand the united states has a plane in algeria and it's transporting americans and other westerners out of the country, some of those people are injured. do you know anything about this operation? >> no, carol. but, you know, what we're hearing is that the algerians couldn't coordinate with any of the foreign governments that had hostages on the ground. it's not all that surprising. it's not the way you want it to go if you're the american president or the british prime minister, but they acted very quickly, very swiftly, and very strongly with the lots of force. you know, you worry, that's the first question that comes to mind of those unaccounted for. there will be those who were killed in this operation, you know, not just bad guys, but inevitably when you launch this kind of military assault with this many people involved, you they never came. and for most of my career, there wasn't that much of that, two things cha
. >> cnn national security contributor and former homeland security adviser to president george w. bush fran townsend joins us now. welcome, fran. >> hi. >> we understand the united states has a plane in algeria and it's transporting americans and other westerners out of the country, some of those people are injured. do you know anything about this operation? >> no, carol. but, you know, what we're hearing is that the algerians couldn't coordinate with any of the foreign...
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. >> i'll tell you something, as a democrat, i took on george w. bush for many of the executive orders he put in place. there's a real debate to be had. but first step is seeing what the executive orders are. right now he's talking about administrative steps. he's also talking about doing much more aggressive sharing of mental health information. and much more aggressive background checks. there's a place to be had for that debate about those points. >> harry reid weighed in on the potential assault weapons ban. here's what he told one las vegas tv station. >> let's be realistic. in the senate we'll do what we think can get through the house. i'm not going to be going through a bunch of these gyrations just to say we've done something. >> president obama really wants to reinstate the assault weapons ban. would you be in favor of that? >> i've talked to tdianne feinstein many times about this. is it something that can pass the senate? maybe. is it something that can pass the house? i doubt it. >> so even harry reid is not so confident that any subst
. >> i'll tell you something, as a democrat, i took on george w. bush for many of the executive orders he put in place. there's a real debate to be had. but first step is seeing what the executive orders are. right now he's talking about administrative steps. he's also talking about doing much more aggressive sharing of mental health information. and much more aggressive background checks. there's a place to be had for that debate about those points. >> harry reid weighed in on the...